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So I was very excited about visiting another ice cave, as these rare natural ice caves are out of this world. This is nature so we never know though if these caves will be formed and accessible each year. Unfortunately, the ice cave in Fláajökull glacier didn't form in the year 2016-2017. The ice cave guides go look for caves every winter and as I said sometimes they don't find caves. And if it is a warm winter then these caves get flooded, so it is impossible to enter them.

The Crystal Ice Cave was located in an outlet glacier of Iceland's largest ice cap, Vatnajökull glacier, called Breiðamerkurjökull glacier.

I had already seen some pretty amazing photographs from inside such ice caves, shot by the extremely talented photographer, Iurie Belegurschi, and was dying to see this ice cave with my own eyes. One of Iurie's beautiful photos is below.

We met the Guide to Iceland tour guide at Jökulsárlón lagoon and were driven in a specially modified car on a very bumpy mountain road up to the glacier. The ride only took 15 minutes and there was a very short and easy 5-minute's-hike to the mouth of the ice cave.

On my photo below you can see the specially modified car from Guide to Iceland, which transported us to the ice cave. In the photo to the left is Ingólfur, the COO of Guide to Iceland, and Kolbeinn, our glacier guide.

We were given a safety helmet and crampons for walking on the ice. These ice caves, although so extremely beautiful, can be dangerous and should never be entered without a glacier guide and proper safety gear.

When we entered the ice cave the beauty of it just took my breath away. I and the rest of the group turned into kids, playing in the snow and touching this blue ice which formed an ice dome above our heads.

The ice cave is big and further inside the cave, away from the light, the ice turned into a sapphire blue wonderland! With ice sculptures and icicles hanging from the ceiling!

We were totally emerged in this beautiful blue colour and all of us were taking photos left and right. I had been worried about not having enough light inside the ice caves for my photos to turn out right and had been reading up on which camera settings would be the best for taking photos inside ice caves.

But once inside the caves I just left it up to the camera and shot the photos on the auto setting and used flash.

I think the photos came out beautifully and justly showing all these extraordinary blue colours inside the ice cave. One of the photos looks like I shot a painted wall, but it is blue ice on one of the ice cave walls.

The photos above and below are of very old blue ice with black ash stripes from volcanic eruptions in Iceland! The blue ice you see inside the cave might be 900 years old!

Isn't this just breathtaking!! I had quite a few "WOW" moments inside this extraordinary beautiful ice cave.

And I was praying for my photos to be able to capture this beauty and not come out all blurred or in the wrong colour.

We spent an hour inside the cave and when we left I felt elated - this is such a unique experience.

This ice cave tour is by far the most popular ice cave tour and it is almost always sold out. If you want to book a tour to this ice cave then don't wait too long as it might be sold out! I was helping a small group of Chinese people with their itinerary and suggested to them a visit to the ice caves. They, unfortunately, waited a couple of days before booking and by then this tour was sold out. I felt for them as they really wanted to see this ice cave.

There is only a limited number of people who are allowed into the ice cave per day, so it is unfortunately not possible to add an extra tour. And as I said earlier then the caves are inaccessible if there is no frost.

These ice caves form in the summertime when water runs underneath the glacier and every autumn the guides look for new ice caves in Vatnajökull glacier.

These natural ice caves are rare and we are very excited when a guide finds a new naturally formed ice cave. But nature is unpredictable and the glaciers are constantly moving. So one never knows if a new ice cave will form each year or where they will be located. Fortunately, this ice cave was located relatively close to ring road 1.

The ice caves can only be visited in winter time for 5 months from November-March. This tour lasts for 3 hours with approximately 1 hour inside the ice cave.